Most painful match you've watched?
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The Green Mile
Bionic Poster
Watching Nadal defeat Young at Indian Wells, playing one of his worst matches of his career. That was painful to witness.
metsman
G.O.A.T.
You have to be kidding me. The first two sets of that match were of excellent quality. If anything you were thinking of 1998 but even then I can think of several slam finals way worse.
cluckcluck
Hall of Fame
It’s pretty straightforward, what match was painful for you to watch. It’s a personal question, could be your favorite or just an interesting matchup. The answer is about you.
Jackuar
Hall of Fame
2008 Wimbledon final. It changed my brain permanently, put me to hibernate for a month and ever since I woke up, it's like the benchmark of heart breaks in sports and nothing has since hit that bar. Thankfully it was the beginning of another semester in college so I got enough time to bounce back for the exams.
cc0509
Talk Tennis Guru
Probably, the Wimbledon 2008 final. I don't know if I can say any match result is painful because I don't take a tennis match that seriously or I don't dwell on the results for long. It's entertainment at the end of the day. However, the W 2008 final result was as close to painful as it gets for me. The one positive thing I can say about it is that it made me start to respect Nadal more.
beltsman
G.O.A.T.
2017 Wimbledon Final. Not because i'm a Cilic fan but seeing a grown man cry mid match because he was getting his ass handed to him was just uncomfortable and sad. Cilic was clearly struggling and had some sort of panic attack of sorts.
Welcome to 2017!
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Maybe USO 2011
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Deleted member 293577
Guest
The colonel should have won that match.
Mazz Retic
Hall of Fame
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Mainad
Bionic Poster
It certainly showed that Nadal had become a threat to Federer on all surfaces, not just clay.
Jackuar
Hall of Fame
The same except the last part about Respect. It gave me hatred and the AO09 augmented it. The respect came about eventually though but quite late, when he came back after the Soderling match to win another 5 more FO, especially the 5th one. That takes mental strength of a whole different level to do it on clay. And also quite a lot of running.
Shank Volley
Hall of Fame
Jesus, I remember that. Both of them deserved to lose that match.
junior74
Talk Tennis Guru
USO 15. 4/23 BPs converted.
In the last two sets, Djoko defended 9/11 while Fred defended 1/5. And Fred hit the double amount of winners in both sets... That match showed us that good defence is almost impossible to beat in tennis.
It felt extra painful, because I was certain it was Federer's last chance at a slam.
In the last two sets, Djoko defended 9/11 while Fred defended 1/5. And Fred hit the double amount of winners in both sets... That match showed us that good defence is almost impossible to beat in tennis.
It felt extra painful, because I was certain it was Federer's last chance at a slam.
Hoshi
Rookie
My favourite players have been Agassi and Nadal.
Agassi.
1995 US Open final
2001 US Open
Nadal. Luckily Nadal was insane in big matches so not as many.
Wimbledon 07
Australia 12, 14.
Will guess at the Djokovic and Federer ones.
Federer.
Wimbledon 08, 14
US Open 09, 11
Aus 09
Djokovic
RG 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
US Open 13
Agassi.
1995 US Open final
2001 US Open
Nadal. Luckily Nadal was insane in big matches so not as many.
Wimbledon 07
Australia 12, 14.
Will guess at the Djokovic and Federer ones.
Federer.
Wimbledon 08, 14
US Open 09, 11
Aus 09
Djokovic
RG 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
US Open 13
TheGhostOfAgassi
Talk Tennis Guru
All Nadal Djokovic matches are painful and tense to me.
A living nightmare a handful of their matches.
A living nightmare a handful of their matches.
AnOctorokForDinner
Talk Tennis Guru
Funny nobody mentioned Wim 2016 SF for Fedr. I thought he was done after that fall, no more fedmagick for us to see.
The Harkleroad
Rookie
Most painful match? Monfils-Simon. Australian Open 2013. 4 hours 43 minutes of painful tennis.
icedevil0289
G.O.A.T.
I think one thing that particularly sticks out when I think painful is that Miami 2009 match between fed/novak. It was painful on both ends and iirc the definition of the person who sucked slightly less won.
icedevil0289
G.O.A.T.
lmao I was going to be like i'm pretty sure anything with simon/monfils together is painful
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
Yeah, utterly dismal. Only 2 winners in the last 3-4 games. Every other point was an unforced error I think. 5 double faults in the tie-break
YellowFedBetter
Hall of Fame
Wasn’t alive for it but it’s gotta be Lendl losing Wimbledon finals to two d—-s. If anyone deserves a CS it’s Ivan.
Also as a Roddick fan for some reason I actually have a harder time watching the ‘04 Wimbledon final than I do ‘09. Even though I wouldn’t start watching tennis until five years after the former.
And even though I’m no Rafa fan definitely to a lesser extent the ‘17 AO final. Because of that match I will forever have to deal with his fans being nanananaa obnoxious until the end of time. It’s like as a UNC fan if Duke won 5 titles in a row.
Other painful ones I’ve seen in my time:
2013 Wimbledon SF
2014 USO F (wanted that one for Kei)
2016 Olympic Final
Also as a Roddick fan for some reason I actually have a harder time watching the ‘04 Wimbledon final than I do ‘09. Even though I wouldn’t start watching tennis until five years after the former.
And even though I’m no Rafa fan definitely to a lesser extent the ‘17 AO final. Because of that match I will forever have to deal with his fans being nanananaa obnoxious until the end of time. It’s like as a UNC fan if Duke won 5 titles in a row.
Other painful ones I’ve seen in my time:
2013 Wimbledon SF
2014 USO F (wanted that one for Kei)
2016 Olympic Final
